The Sikh Bulletin &gn 534 February 2003 <siqguuuuuuuur pRRRswid ] is`K bulytn The Sikh Bulletin A Voice of Concerned Sikhs World Wide February 2003 &gn 534 nwnkSwhI [email protected] Volume 5, Number 2 Published by: Khalsa Tricentennial Foundation of N.A. Inc; Sikh Center Roseville, 201 Berkeley Ave, Roseville, CA 95678. Fax (916) 773-6784 Khalsa Tricentennial Foundation of N.A. Inc. is a religious tax exempt California Corporation. In This Issue/qqkrw One Step Forward 295 Steps Back ....................... ...1 Birds Of A Feather……………………………… .2 ONE STEP FORWARD 295 STEPS BACK jQydwr vydNwqI jI dw kwlw Afgwnw jI nNUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUU AwdyS p`qr. .4 rd kwlw APgwnw jI dw vydWqI jI nNUUUUUUUUUU jvwb……………….5 On December 23 . 2002 five Singh Sahiban met at Akal Takhat Sahib. Among other things, the details of which follow in the rest of The Sikh AwdyS dw jvwb ……………………………………... 6 kUx inKuTe n;nk; Pxk sc rhI. ……………………. ..10 Bulletin, they decided to form a committee to look into the matter of Kala Afghana’s Right To Freedom of Expression. 10 Nanakshahi Calendar and summon S. Gurbakhsh Singh Kala Afghana In The Service Of The Sikh Panth………………..12 to appear before them on Feb. 10, 2003. While the former step, although Akal Takhat, Kala Afghana And Guru Panth…….13 too late, is laudable, the latter step is reprehensible. With these summons qlbI dI ic`TI dw ivSlySxwqimk AiDAYn………..14 they are determined to repeat the history ig:kyvl isMG jQydwr, qKq sRI dmdmw swihb by duplicating the treatment meted vloN ic~TI………………………………………… .17 out to Prof. Gurmukh Singh and dUbeI VO iC&TI…………………………………….17 Giani Bhag Singh. sc dy FMForcI dyyyyyyyyyyyyy gl JUT rUpI blwvwN dw iek hor hmlw19 Nemesis Of Jathedar Giani Kewal Singh…………20 Nanakshahi Calendar: Nanaksar Thath Isher Darbar……………………..21 Congratulations are in order to Jathedar Joginder Singh Vedanti’s Patron Saint….25 S. Paul Singh Purewal and Institute Jathedar Manjit Singh’ Patron Saint……………...26 Of Sikh Studies. It took several years Letters To The Editor…………………………… 28 of effort to take the matter before the Misinterpretation Of Gurbani And Sikhism ..... …31 full house of SGPC and get its Book Page ......................................................... …32 unanimous approval in 1998. It was to have been implemented on the Editor in Chief 300th Anniversary of The Khalsa in Hardev Singh Shergill April 1999, but first Jathedar Ranjit Editorial Board Singh, to please Baba Bedi’s Sant Avtar Singh Dhami Samaj and then Jathedar Puran Gurpal Singh Khaira Singh, to please the RSS, blocked its Implementation. Production Associates Nanakshahi Calendar has been followed at Gurdwara Sahib Roseville, Amarjit Singh Padda home of The Sikh Bulletin, since November 20th. 1999 when S. Paul Jasnain Singh Singh Purewal spoke at the ‘First International Conference on Sikh The Sikh Bulletin is distributed free around the Identity’ held at this Gurdwara Sahib. The following resolution was World. All you have to do is ask. We invite offers passed unanimously and the Jaikara of acceptance was lead by Giani of help in disribution in other countries. Wadhawa Singh, President, Sikh Temple Sacramento, California: Please note our new e-mail adderess “ We the Sikh Sangat gathered at the Sikh Center, Roseville, USA on [email protected] Saturday November 20, 1999, strongly believe that Sikhs need to have their own calendar and that the new Nanakshahi Calendar with fixed ‘Gurpurabs’ and ‘Sangrands’ meets that need. We request Jathedar Akal The views expressed by the authors are their Takhat Sahib to lift the suspension imposed upon this calendar and we own. Please send the feedback and inputs to: strongly urge the Sharomani Gurdwara Parbandhak Committee to take [email protected] steps to implement this calendar, which it already adopted back in 1999 Our Website: sikhbulletin.sadapunjab.com for Sikhs throughout the world.” The Sikh Center Roseville, 201 Berkeley Ave, Roseville, CA. 95678 1 The Sikh Bulletin &gn 534 February 2003 being immoral. Person is Isher Singh Baba and BIRDS OF A FEATHER organization is Nanaksar. Amar Singh cons under the name ‘Nanaksar Thath Isher Darbar’ and he does it under the noses of, themselves morally bankrupt, devotees of Nand Singh, Isher Singh and the lot, with impunity, as if he is challenging them to confront him and see what juicy tales he has to tell about their icons. This bird is very wealthy and powerful with big connections, globally. The gentleman on the left is pathetic Jaginder Singh Vedanti. He, unfortunately for us, is Badal’s handpicked Jathedar of Akal Takhat sahib, third in line to desecrate that ‘most supreme seat of the Sikh Nation’. Sikh Bulletin has written extensively about him. (See SB May, June, Nov.2000; May, June, July, Aug., Oct. 2001; Feb. March, Aug. Sept., Oct. 2002; Jan. 2003). Some say he deserves some applause for his decision to implement the Nanakshahi calendar after five years of its passage and after his silence of three years since taking office. But we think credit really goes to Bibi Jagir Kaur who incurred excommunication at the hands of Jathedar Puran Singh for simply stating what was obvious i.e. the General body of the SGPC had spoken in 1998 and approved its implementation and she is not going to thwart the will of the people. If anything, Jathedar Vedanti should krqUiq psU kI mwns jwiq ] lok pcwrw krY idnu rwiq be asked what he was afraid of the previous three years. Gurdwara Sahib Roseville has been following the ] directive of SGPC to implement Nanakshahi calendar bwhir ByK AMqir mlu mwieAw ] (267) since 1999. Should not Akal Takhat Jathedars have obeyed kartoot pasoo kee maanas jaat, lok pachara kare the decision of SGPC, a body that comes closest to old time din raat. Bahar bhekh antar mal maya. ‘Sarbat Khalsa’? They belong to the human species, but they act It is interesting that the decisions to implement like animals. They curse others day and night. Nanakshahi Calendar and summon Gurbakhsh Singh Outwardly, they wear religious robes, but Kala Afghana to Akal Takhat Sahib were taken within is the filth of Maya. simultaneously. Individuals and organizations that vehemently oppose the Calendar are also the ones who are fearful of truth flowing out of Kala Afghanas’s qKiq bhY qKqY kI lwiek ] (1039-11, mwrU, mÚ 1) writings. takhat bahai takh-tai kee laa-ik. He alone sits on the throne, who is worthy of the Is it because of pressure from anti Sikhi organizations that throne. he has locked horns with S. Gurbakhsh Singh Kala Afghana? In August 2002 these organizations lead by Man is known by the company he keeps. The Atty. Gurcharanjit Singh Lamba, had launched a ruthless misinformation campaign against Sikh Missionary ‘gentleman’ on the left was warned about the ‘animal’ Colleges. In the Sept. 2002 SB editorial we had identified on the right, but the lure of Maya was too much for him these organizations and their ‘intellectuals’. We refresh your to resist. Does this Jathedar know that the second memory again because these same organizations are behind Shabad was meant by the Guru for him? Perhaps not! the pressure on Vedanti that led him to summon S. Gurbakhsh Singh Kala Afghana to Akal Takhat Sahib The Bird on the right is certified congenital liar Nanaksaria on Feb. 10, 2003: Thug ‘Sant Baba’ Amar Singh Barundi who has sworn to never tell the truth, under or out of oath. In addition he has Organisations: Intellectuals: sworn to rub in the dirt name of the person and his Damdami Taksal Bhai Mohkam Singh oraganization for throwing him out of that organization for Akhand Kirtani Jatha Giani Sher Singh The Sikh Center Roseville, 201 Berkeley Ave, Roseville, CA. 95678 2 The Sikh Bulletin &gn 534 February 2003 Budha Dal Dr. Harbhajan Singh compromised by the establishment. In our opinion he would Tarna Dal Shaheedi Misal Dr. Harpal Singh Pannu best serve the cause of Sikhi by defending Kala Afghana. If Tarna Dal Harian Belan Mr. Sukhdev S. Bhaur he joins the inquisitors, history will not be kind to him. Gurmat Sidhant Parcharak Sant Smaj In April 2001 this same Dharam Parchar Committee had To complete the list we would like to add deras Rarewala, attempted to proscribe Kala Afghana’s books but thanks to Nanaksar, Mastuana, Sacha Sauda of Baba Gurmit Ram some real Sikhs their efforts were thwarted. For a full Rahim Singh, Divya Jyoti Jagran Sanstha of Ashutosh, account of that we refer you to The SB of June 2001 but Noor Vishav Roohani Trust of Baba Dhanwant Singh, reproduce the following excerpt: Gobind Sadans of Baba Virsa Singh, Hemkunt, Baru “Outside the venue of the Ludhiana meeting, the ‘Bipar Sahib and Sarbjot Bedi and Sikh Youth of America along Sena’ (Brahminical Army) under the leadership of with its American Gurdwara Parbandhak Committee. Advocate Gurcharanjit Singh Lamba (who had been sent (See SB Feb., April, June, Aug., Sept. 2002) from Patna to Punjab to lead the ‘Dasam Granth Front’ in Punjab) was quite active.” Further, it would be a grave omission on our part if we did not include the members of the SGPC Adharam Parchar As the following news story reveals ‘High Priests’ pass the Committee among the anti-Sikh organizations: buck on to Badungar about Ashutosh, to a committee about Nanakshahi Calendar and do not touch Sacha Sauda 1. Prof. Kirpal Singh Ji Badungar Baba at all. It should be known that the only Jathedar fit for 2. Dr. Darshan Singh Ji Chandigarh. the job, Giani Kewal Singh, has been jailed without bail 3. Dr. Kharak SIngh Ji Chandigarh because of the Sacha Sauda Baba for something that he did 4. Giani Gurditt Singh JI Chandigarh not do.